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and flowers growing in a single population in Lithuania<br />

indicated that β-caryophyllene and caryophyllene<br />

oxide dominated in leaves, while spathulenol,<br />

tetradecanol and viridiflorol were dominant constituents of<br />

the flowers (Radusiene et al., 2005). In June 2008 we<br />

studied H. perforatum plants growing in northeastern of<br />

Iran (northwestern of Neyshabur) revealed α- and βpinene<br />

and α- and β-selinene as the primary volatile<br />

constituents of the leaves and flowers, while germacrene<br />

D was predominant in the oil extracted from the stems<br />

and roots (Motavalizadehkakhky et al., 2008). The aerial<br />

parts of wild H. perforatum were collected during the<br />

flowering period, especially in different regions of<br />

Western Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greek,<br />

Serbia), but also in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Lithuania as well<br />

as in China and India (Bertoli et al., 2011).<br />

H. perforatum collected from Serbia (Saraglou et al.,<br />

2007) contains an important quantity of α-pinene (8.6%),<br />

while the same species from the Rujan mountains did not<br />

contain α-pinene (Gudzic et al., 2001). α- and β-pinene<br />

are major components in the oil of H. perforatum from<br />

Greece (Petrakis et al., 2005).<br />

The amount of mono- and sesquiterpenes, seem<br />

reduced in H. perforatum from Turkey (Demirci et al. ,<br />

2005; Cirak et al., 2010). The main components in the oil<br />

of H. prforatum from Italy were 2-methyl octane (21.1%),<br />

germacrene-D (17.6%) and α -pinene (15.8%) (Pintore et<br />

al., 2005). Samples of French H. scabrum plants were<br />

rich in sesquiterpenes (Mathis et al., 1964), while the oil<br />

of the same species collected in Turkey consisted of 13<br />

monoterpene hydrocarbon (85%) and α- pinene was the<br />

major component (72%).<br />

The predominance (45.3%) of α-pinene was also<br />

confirmed in dried flowering aerial parts of H. scabrum<br />

collected from Iran (Morteza-Semnani et al., 2005).<br />

Hyperican content in flower and leaves of eight<br />

Hypericum (helianthemoides, hyssopifolium, scabrum,<br />

perforatum,...) species from Iran determined by HPLC<br />

(Jaymand et al., 2008). Chemical composition of leaves<br />

and flowers and fruits of H. perforatum from Kashan in<br />

Iran were determined by gas chromatography-mass<br />

spectrometry (Akhbari et al., 2009). Analysis of oil<br />

resulted in identification of 55 compounds (91.4%), for<br />

leaves, which α-pinene (29.33%) was the main<br />

components.<br />

The analysis for flower and fruit part resulted in the<br />

identification of 26 compounds (95.96 %), which α-<br />

Amorphene (15.86%), α-pinene (11.34%), Thymol<br />

(7.27%) and α-Campholene aldehyde (6.63%) were the<br />

main components. Chemical composition of aerial parts<br />

of H. perforatum and H. scabrum from Tajikistan were<br />

analyzed by GC-MS. Sixty-six compound were identified<br />

in the oil of H. prforatum with Germacrene D (13.7%), αpinene<br />

(5.1%), (E)-Caryophyllene (4.7%), n-dodecanol<br />

(4.5%), Caryophyllene oxide (4.2%), Bicyclogermacrene<br />

(3.8%), Spathulenol (3.4%) as the main constituents.<br />

Twenty-six compounds were identified in the oil of H.<br />

Alireza 2479<br />

scabrum L. with α-pinene (44.8%), Spathulenol (7.1%),<br />

Verbenol (6.0%), trans-Verbenol (3.9%), and γ-<br />

Muurolene (3.5%) as the abundant compounds<br />

(Sharopov et al., 2010).<br />

Many recent example of antibacterial or antifungal<br />

activity of essential oils can be found in the Hypericum<br />

genus, not only for H. prforatum. In fact, several<br />

Hypericum species native to different region have been<br />

investigated on several types of bacteria and fungi<br />

(Warnke et al., 2009; Buchbauer et al., 2010, 2004; Pauli<br />

et al., 2010).<br />

Essential oil from H. maculatum Crantz. in Serbia<br />

showed a large spectrum and a strong activity as<br />

antimicrobial agent especially against Staphylococcus<br />

aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,<br />

Salmonella enteritidis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacillus<br />

subtilis, Sarcina lutea (Gudzic et al., 2002).<br />

The antimicrobial activities of α- and β-pinene, as well<br />

as β-caryophyllene, have been well-documented and, as<br />

these compounds represent dominant components in the<br />

essential oils of many Hypericum species, such effects<br />

are not unexpected. Further investigations with essential<br />

oils, volatile fractions and infused oils from Hypericum<br />

species would be of interest due to the ex vivo antiinflammatory<br />

activity and in vivo gastroprotective effects<br />

that have been demonstrated with H. perforatum infused<br />

oils (Zdunic et al., 2009; Lavagna et al., 2001).<br />

The essential oil of fresh aerial parts of Hypericum<br />

richeri Vill. subsq. grisebachii obtained by hydrodistilation<br />

was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. One hundred and five<br />

constituents identified and tested against a panel of<br />

microbial strains by broth microdilution assay and it was<br />

found to was also moderate effect against all tested<br />

microorganisms (Dordevic et al., 2011).<br />

The essential oils of H. scabrum, H. scabroides and H.<br />

triquetrifolium were studied for the first time for their<br />

antimicrobial activity against nine organisms. All the<br />

essential oils exhibited some broad spectrum<br />

antibacterial activity, at a concentration of 80 µg/ml. The<br />

essential oils of Hypericum species showed antibacterial<br />

activity against the tested organisms and a yeast (Kizil et<br />

al., 2004). The composition of the hydrodistilled oils<br />

obtained from aerial parts of H. hyssopifolium subsp. and<br />

H. heterophyllum Vent. were analyzed by means of GC<br />

and GC-MS, and 66 compounds were determined in<br />

total. The oils of H. hyssopifolium, is rich in<br />

monoterpenes consists α-pinene (57.3%), β-pinene<br />

(9.0%), limonene (6.2%) and α-phellandrene (4.4%). The<br />

oils were tested for antifungal activity using microbial<br />

growth inhibition assays in vitro against 10 agricultural<br />

pathogenic fungi. In general, the oils showed moderate<br />

activity against several fungal species (Cakir et al., 2004).<br />

The chemical composition of the essential oils of nine<br />

taxa from seven sections of Hypericum L. (Guttiferae, H.<br />

perforatum subsp. perforatum, H. perforatum subsp.<br />

veronense, H. calycinum, H. montanum, H. richeri subsp.<br />

richeri, H. hyssopifolium, Hypericum hirsutum, Hypericum

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